The Simpsons Movie

The Simpsons Movie is a 2007 animated comedy film based on the animated television series The Simpsons, directed by David Silverman, and scheduled to be released worldwide by July 27, 2007. The film was produced by James L. Brooks, Matt Groening, Al Jean, Mike Scully, and Richard Sakai and written by eleven of the television series' most prolific writers: Scully, Jean, Brooks, Groening, George Meyer, David Mirkin, Mike Reiss, John Swartzwelder, Jon Vitti, Ian Maxtone-Graham and Matt Selman. It stars the regular television cast of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden, and Tress MacNeille and features Albert Brooks and Green Day in prominent guest roles.

After previous attempts to create a film version of The Simpsons had failed due to script length and lack of staff, production began in 2001. Numerous plot ideas were conceived by the writers, with Matt Groening's being developed into the film. The script was re-written one hundred times, continuing even after animation had begun. This meant that "two films' worth" of finished material was cut, including cameos from Isla Fisher, Minnie Driver and Erin Brockovich. Tie-in promotions were made with 7-Eleven, who transformed their stores into Kwik-E-Marts, and other companies such as Burger King. The film premiered in Springfield, Vermont, who had won the right to hold it through a Fox competition.

Plot

Homer decides to buy a pig, whose droppings Homer puts in a silo. Later that day Green Day are holding a concert at the lake. Their barge is dissolved by the pollution in the lake and sinks, killing the band. Lisa starts a project about climate change called "An Irritating Truth", however she becomes distracted by an Irish boy named Colin. A community effort is successful in cleaning up the lake, that is, until Homer dumps the silo of pig (and his own) waste into the lake to save time and make it to a free donut giveaway. The lake becomes horribly contaminated, mutating a squirrel into a (small) thousand-eyed monster. The EPA discovers the mutated animal and gets the go-ahead from President Arnold Schwarzenegger to take over Springfield, placing a giant dome over the town so that it will not affect the environment any more. The Simpsons find a way to sneak out of the dome before a raging mob kills them and flee to Alaska as the rest of the town now hates Homer. During the escape, 742 Evergreen Terrace is burned and vandalized, and sinks into a giant sinkhole and is destroyed, along with Homer's pink car and Bart's treehouse. The family drives to Alaska in a new pickup truck. Homer and Marge nearly break up when Homer refuses to go back to the town to save it from becoming the new Grand Canyon, the dome began to chip and break so the EPA decided to detonate a gigantic bomb inside it, destroying Springfield. Eventually Homer is led by a mystical native woman (whom he calls "boob lady") who swings her gigantic breasts to point the direction back to Springfield after a mystical dream he has (a la the hot chili episode). Homer returns to Springfield and saves the town, his marriage, and his status as "dad" with Bart, who had adopted Ned Flanders as a father figure by using skills he developed in the "Ball of Death" fair game to zoom around the inside of the dome with Bart holding the bomb, which he throws out the small hole in the top, saving the town.